Steel making treatment techniques

McKubre and Syrett (1983, 1988) were the first to adapt the method of harmonic analysis for the control of the corrosion rate of cathodically polarized systems. They presented a theoretical description of the problem and developed the measuring technique by making measurements over a wide range of frequencies from 1 Hz to 10 kHz. The method applied by them is known in the literature as harmonic impedance spectroscopy (HIS). It is based on the measurement of the zero, first, second, and third harmonics of the current response of an electrode perturbed by a voltage sinusoid signal. The elaborate mathematical treatment of results theoretically gives the possibility of obtaining admittance data independent of the frequency. The numerical solution of a system of three equations with three unknowns allows the determination of required AE, b, and values, and finally the corrosion current. The authors of the HIS method carried out attempts to determine the corrosion rate of copper-nickel alloys, steel, and titanium under cathodic protec-... 

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